Sir Real

Sir Real (Neil Spragg) has been involved in the music scene in Birmingham for 17 years as a drummer, producer and label-owner, and for the last eleven years, following an eye-opening visit to Holland, he has been an integral part of the Midlands club scene and is one of the three original resident DJs (alongside Surgeon & Paul Damage) from notorious Birmingham club House of God, one of the longest running techno clubs in the UK (it celebrated it’s 11th birthday in January 2004).

As an outlet for his funkier side he helps run Contact, where he is one of four resident DJs, each playing a supreme selection of electro, breaks and bass music. For the first four years of his DJing career, he was also resident with the Third Eye Soundsystem, another much-loved Brummy club. Sir Real has DJ’d and played live extensively around the UK, and has also DJ’d and performed live in clubs across Europe.

Sir Real is a prolific producer, and released several well-received EPs on the now-defunct Round Records (which he helped set up in 1997). He also has his own label Snafu Recordings, and helps run Covert Records with DJ Bigfoot.

Most recently energy has been focussed on [k]rack-troni[k], which is an outlet for a more electro/breakbeat orientated sound. He has also recorded tracks for Embryo Records, Magic Trax, and Melt Recordings and has had several tracks licensed to high profile compilations (including Dave Clarke’s hugely successful World Service electro-techno mashup and Bentley Rhythm Ace’s FSUK mix).

On top of all this he also manages to hold down a full-time job as head of UK sales at VMW, a distribution company based in the midlands, and still finds time to fit in the odd sound-design contract for various gaming companies in the UK.